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How do I center a page in the center of my monitor? I go to view > 1 page, but if I do that, although the page is centered, as soon as I zoom in, the entire page is set off to the left, as if it were in a 2 page view. I want to fix my view at one page, centered in the middle of my screen, with any zoom level I like.
using msword 2010, w7 64, 1920x1080 monitor
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I learn something new about Word every day ...
I have to go out and can't check this properly at the moment (and the behaviour seems a little odd at first glance) but there is a setting in VBA - Zoom.PageColumns - that (partially) controls what you want. I will dig a little further on my return.
Hi Tony,
Unfortunately I have not used macros in word before, although I have used them occasionally in excel. Do you think a macro attached to normal.dot might work across all (new) documents? (I don't know if this is possible. But it sounds like an interesting approach, if it is.)
Actually that might work. The following code saved in both an autoopen and an autonew macro in the normal template
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
.PageColumns = 1
.Percentage = 50 'set percentage as required
End With
(http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm will explain how)
should force the behaviour that he wants.
<Tony Jollans [MVP]> wrote in message news:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***...
I learn something new about Word every day ...
I have to go out and can't check this properly at the moment (and the
behaviour seems a little odd at first glance) but there is a setting in
VBA - Zoom.PageColumns - that (partially) controls what you want. I will dig
a little further on my return.
"Richard A." wrote in message news:6cfd7af0-6070-4932-844d-b068bd8710e8...
Hi Tony,
Unfortunately I have not used macros in word before, although I have used
them occasionally in excel. Do you think a macro attached to normal.dot
might work across all (new) documents? (I don't know if this is possible.
But it sounds like an interesting approach, if it is.)
Enjoy,
Tony
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Graham,
You are on a roll. Everything you have posted in this thread has been spot on.
The only thing I would suggest (and it is the best I can think of at present) would be to add a Class module to pick up and re-center the page following a zoom change on re-entering the document:
Option Explicit
Dim oAppClass As New Class1
Sub AutoNew()
Set oAppClass.oApp = Word.Application
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
.PageColumns = 1
.Percentage = 35
End With
End Sub
Sub AutoOpen()
Set oAppClass.oApp = Word.Application
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
.PageColumns = 1
.Percentage = 35
End With
End Sub
Option Explicit
Public WithEvents oApp As Word.Application
Private Sub oApp_WindowSelectionChange(ByVal Sel As Selection)
Dim i As Long
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
i = .Percentage
.PageColumns = 1
.Percentage = i
End With
End Sub
I looked through the other change events and didn't see anything that might work better. Any thoughts.
Greg Maxey --- Visit my website at: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word\_tips.htm
No - that looks good, but the credit goes to Tony for suggesting this obscure option.
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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